Saturday, July 3, 2021

A year of flowers #64: Fireweed

 

 
Chamerion angustifolium
 
I have been watching the blooms unfold on my fireweed for several days now, taking a photo every day, and waiting to see when the heat-wave-death-bubble will at last leave us alone.  It mostly has moved on, but plants are suffering.  It appears to me to look like mid-July out there now, and a lot of plants have wilted.  Today, though a few more buds have opened up, the bloom was starting to wilt from the bottom, so yesterday's shot will have to do.  I have two vigorous fireweed plants next to each other here.  One came from my neighbors down the road, and the other from my friend Charlotte.

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